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โครงการรวบรวมและจัดทําเอกสารวารสารอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์

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(2) Hadez : Interesting. You are specks of dust underneath our
fingernails. Your very breath is a gift from Olympus. You
have insulted powers beyond your comprehension.

Queen : Who are you?
Hadez : I am Hades. Kneel.
Context: The God of the underworld
[Hadez] shows his powerful ability
over mankind in the Argos’s Hall.

(3) Son : This child will be yours.
Father : I’m your father. The bond between us is much more than
flesh and bone.
Context: The father explains his love
and care to his son.

In the examples (1) and (2), the sense of superpower is
reflected through the metaphor ‘the Lion of Persia’ and ‘You are specks of
dust underneath our fingernails. Your very breath is a gift from Olympus’. In
example (1), the author seems to express the superpower ability of the hero
while presenting the lack of superpower of mankind in example (2). In
example (1), the author intended to implicitly compare the hero’s superior

ability (e.g. high efficient skill in battle, being a great leader) with the powerful
characteristic of the lion (e.g. fierce, strong, being an animals’ leader). On the
contrary, the lack of power of normal people [Queen] is implicitly expressed
in ‘specks of dust underneath our fingernails’; the author intended to portray
the weakness and lack of power of normal people when comparing to the
power of God [Hadez].